Aesthetics and the Arts

Throughout the annuals of recorded history and given consideration of prehistoric artifacts,aesthetics and the arts have played a major and prominent role in the development and cultivation of not only cultural ideas of fledging,but individual statements of those members within the confines of a particular culture …

Introduction

Without question, the mere meaning of the word art is subject to interpretation, especially considering the mystifying world of twentieth-century art. Nonetheless, the purpose of this paper is an effort to demonstrate that art is definable. The interchangeability and kaleidoscopic dimensions of art is a forecast of profound divergences, aspects, and opinions in every realm of existence. Art is ubiquitous it is seen everywhere and is created by everyone. Karl Marx stated in so many words that the history of the world is the history of class struggle and while this may be true to a point, the history of the world may very well be the history and development of art and the body of philosophy called aesthetics. "In short, the history of human experience is a history of the development of arts (Cohoon 2000)." Often time's art is representative of political ideas and statements and because of these ideas and statements, art can narrowly, and at times broadly, be construed to have definition. A definition of aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the perception and quintessence of what regards artistic merit versus lack of artistic merit. ...

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